DRAWING CHEQUES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10462, 23 May 1910, Page 1

DRAWING CHEQUES.

Sir, —Not long since I noticed a case reported in your paper in which a man was charged with altering a cheque from £8 to £BO. The cheque was drawn by a leading mercantile house, and the institution cannot be complimented on the method'followed in drawing cheques, otherwise the document could not have been altered so easily that the alteration could escape detection. Drawers of cheques should exercise ordinary care and not place a temptation in the way of wrongdoers. There are many business men and business houses issuing cheques in such a style that it is a tribute to the honesty of'the people that the drawers are not more frequently imposed upon. Here is an example of two cheques, one drawn in such a manner that it is a strong temptation to alter it, and the other showing that alteration is difficult: — BANK OF WAITAKI RIVER. Pay John Tinn or bearer, the sum of Eight • .pounds 9s £8:9:0: A. GOLDMAN. BANK OF WAITAKI RIVER. Pay John Tinn or bearer, the sum of Eightpounds nine shillings £B—9— 1 -0. A. GOLDMAN. If a. little ordinary care were exercised in filling in cheques, our gaols would not be holding people who were sent there largely owing to encouragement given.—I am, etc.,' ■ ORDINARY CARE.

To tlie Editor.